Exocet is a union between fashion and technology

As machines envelop us into their cold, EXOCET PARISreaches back to technology to salvage the animal in us.

Crystallizing their shared reverence for the living beings of nature, Exocet’s Morning Lau and Yasmine Jaber summon a taxonomy of hybrid creatures in the form of innovative hand-bag designs, lifting the tradition of bagmaking into 3D-printed flight.

Exocet is a union between fashion and technology, a metaphore of the great role which technology plays in our lives today; as technology invades our lives, we start to lose our animal spirit.

Today, we learned the sad news of designer Hubert de Givenchy's passing at the age of 91. “It’s the most beautiful job in the world to give happiness to people”, he told AnOther last year on fulfilling his life dream of becoming a designer.

After founding the house in 1952, he championed separates for women, and created looks for Audrey Hepburn – most famously, the little black dress she wore in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's. On his retirement in 1995, the position of artistic director was held by the likes of John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Julien Macdonald, Riccardo Tisci, and most recently Clare Waight Keller. In an archive piece, below, we look back on the influence Tisci's Givenchy in particular had on fashion at large.